"Rest assured, the sun will not set on Sunset for many a season. The performances are all excellent. It's extravagant. It's spectacular. Go and enjoy." — Clive Barnes, New York Post

"The show's a hit. Lloyd Webber's most shamelessly and artfully constructed score. It offers two of Lloyd Webber's best songs in 'With One Look' and 'As If We Never Said Goodbye.' Director Trevor Nunn and designer John Napier, the Cats team, have fashioned one coup de theatre after another. Radiant." — Michael Walsh, Time Magazine

"Wonderfully entertaining. Lloyd Webber and his colleagues have reinvented the movie as a romantic musical spectacle. It's a show that, like Phantom, demands his floridly romantic music. The show is visually magnificent. Grandeur is designer John Napier's signature, but he also has a breathtaking imagination. Sunset Boulevard has become a celebration of the outsized glory of Hollywood." — Robert Feldberg, The Record

In 1994, Andrew Lloyd Webber's SUNSET BOULEVARD opened on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre, where it ran for 977 performances.

Christopher James Hampton was born in England in 1946. While at Oxford University, he wrote about his experiences with adolescent homosexuality in the play When Did You Last See My Mother? The play moved from London's Royal Court Theatre to the Comedy Theatre, making Mr. Hampton the youngest modern playwright to debut in the West End. He then adapted the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses into both a ... view full profile